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Hello, all.  The graduate students in my department are organizing what
promises to be a terrific conference on cultural production and the
construction of social identities.  I have appended the conference CFP
below.  For more information, please contact Lynn Comella at
<[log in to unmask]>.

--Marty Norden
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Conference Call for Papers
BORDERLANDS: REMAPPING ZONES OF CULTURAL PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA -- March 30-31, 2001
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2000

In contemporary theorizing and other areas of cultural production, the
notion of Borderlands has helped to make sense of a variety of cultural
processes, experiences, and practices. We take Borderlands to be those
in-between places defined by the flow of people, labor, capital,
information, and cultural products across borders, physical and otherwise,
both within and between cultures. They are zones that are simultaneously
ordered and disordered, contested and accepted, and invariably constituted
by-and constitutive of-various communication practices and forms of
identification. Because Borderlands are social scenes and places that
people inhabit, they are also sites where ways of relating, feeling, and
imagining are articulated into new constellations of social identities,
practices and subjectivities. As a metaphor, Borderlands suggests those
spaces, moments, and situations where difference becomes manifest-where
preexisting lines of demarcation have been crossed, blurred, disrupted,
and where new ones are continually being (re)mapped.

We believe that such ways of envisioning Borderlands offer rich
opportunities for theorizing contemporary experiences in ways that
challenge received assumptions and paradigms. To that end, the graduate
students of the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, invite you to BORDERLANDS: REMAPPING ZONES OF CULTURAL
PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION. We seek paper and panel submissions that
interrogate how various Borderlands are produced, represented, negotiated,
performed, and lived. We encourage submissions from a variety of
disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Topics may include (but are not
limited to) the following:

SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTIFYING PRACTICES: How are various forms of
identification and embodiment (e.g. cultural identities, including hybrid,
transnational, transgendered, etc.) constructed, experienced and
performed?
SPACE AND PLACE: How are specific localities produced through both
economies of exchange (e.g. market, symbolic, and political) and concrete,
situated social interactions and discourses?
GLOBAL POLITICS AND MEDIA: Questions of global audiences, media
conglomerates, cultural imperialism, cultural policy, citizenship, and
communal life
GLOBAL/LOCAL NEXUS: Explorations of belonging, displacement, personhood,
and "worldhood"
AESTHETICS AND MODES OF REPRESENTATION: How do different modes of
representation (e.g. film, video, television, cyberspace, music, etc.)
define, erase or recreate aesthetic spaces and experiences?
TRANSCULTURALISM, MULTICULTURALISM AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY: Questions of
diaspora, migration, decolonization, and core/periphery relations
POLITICAL INTERVENTION: How might different modes of theorizing and forms
of political practice (e.g. feminist, queer, postcolonial, etc.) define
borderlands as sites of cultural and political transformation?

Deadline for paper and panel submissions is December 15, 2000. We are only
accepting on-line submissions (www.umass.edu/commgrads). Extended paper
abstracts should be 750 words maximum. For panel submissions, please
include a title, a brief rationale, and a description for each of the
papers on the panel (150 words each maximum).

For additional information contact Lynn Comella: [log in to unmask]

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Lynn Comella
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003   USA

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